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Question 1

Hamartiology

Answer 1

Theology of Sin

Question 2

Atonement of Sin

Answer 2

• Sacrifices
• Pharisees: Good works
• Maccabe: martyrdom of the faithful
  => Orthodox: require martyrdom, fought in battles
• Giving gifts: alms, leveling playing field

Question 3

Menelaus

Answer 3

Changing rules, changing society (capital offense)

Question 4

Social Classes

Answer 4

1) Aristocrates	
Small group
land/business owners
 Politicians
Only the men can vote

2) Commoners
served/worked for society
Did not own land

Middle Class had slaves (2 types)
1) Servant: go and hire himself out
2) Slaves: owned by masters
The largest group

Most despised groups of
Jews: tax collectors

Most common jobs
Teachers
Accountants (exchange money)
Doctors (medicinal)
Philosophers
Executors (beheaded or crucified)

Question 5

The Church

Answer 5

1) We are the light to a dark world
2) Significance to the insignificance
3) We experience mercy
4) Chosen people => chosen for a purpose
5) We are a royal priesthood
Help others access God
6) Holy Nation: set apart to god
God-honoring behavior
7) Value of something lies in who owns it
We are the community which theology is

Question 6

Redemption Story

During the Intertestamental Period

Answer 6

1) Let Persians return to the land
2) Greek brought a common language
3) Romans: no more war/ brought peace
4) God enters, no distractions

Question 7

How God communicated

Answer 7

• Scripture
• Moses/lan (oral revelation)
• Special revelation (creation)

Question 8

Prayer vs. Devotion

Answer 8

• Prayer
  More legalistic
  Quietly, specific
• Devotion
  Giving of resources (i.e. time)
  Prayer
  Participating in life of ministry

Question 9

Law

Answer 9

• How we behave with one another
• What we’re allowed to do in our faith
• Love: God, Others, Yourself
• Love God–Love me as God loves me–Love others as I love myself
• “Behavior”
• Praxis = actions based on theology
• “Law Code” that’s non-negotiable
• Mosaic Law and what rabbi’s taught
  => Practical: what rabbis taught, dietary, Sabbath
  => Theoretical: philosophical, Mosaic

Question 10

Family

Answer 10

• Everyone is family (not extended vs nuclear as in the US)
• Units: Greeks and Romans slow birth rate (1-2 children)
• Arabs more children: larger families in rural/smaller
• Families in city: not enough jobs
  => 1st child
  ~ Boy: blessed family
  By the 8th day, boy was circumcised and named
  ~ Girl: time of mourning before naming
• Names given by
  => Politically: known by father’s name/ career/ religious convictions
• Death of a loved one
  => Died before noon: buried that day
  => Died after noon: buried next day

Question 11

Pseudepigrapha

Answer 11

false writings

Question 12

Heretic

Answer 12

• wrong idea/ thinking

- Deliberate denial of revealed truth coupled with the acceptance of error

Question 13

“Jesus Fish”

Answer 13

• How Christians communicated

- Helped them see if someone was a spy or not and if they should feel safe to share faith with

Question 14

Three groups developed during the Maccabean Revolt

Answer 14

• Essenes
  Moved out of Jerusalem into the mountains, gypsy life, prophetic writings
• Pharisees
  Into Old Testament Law, keepers of the law, Pentateuch
• Sadducees
  Aristocratic, temple party, seen in places to be “seen” rather than to worship

Question 15

Disphora

Answer 15

any Jew Living outside of Palestine

Question 16

Senatorial

Answer 16

• areas away from Rome

- made up of procounsels and procurators

Question 17

Imperial

Answer 17

• Rome
• proraetors
• collector of taxes

Question 18

Procounsels

Answer 18

• leaders assigned by Roman senate to different territories

Question 19

Procurators

Answer 19

• assigned by Roman empire to watch the procouncels to make sure they do right by the emperor